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CQC ratings have a huge impact on your care home business. If your home has received a ‘poor’ or ‘requires improvement’ rating, then you are probably in a panic. After all, you could stand to lose a lot of money.
Your independent care home partner for CQC inspections
CQC inspections are a stressful time for any care provider. A care home’s rating has a dramatic impact on its commercials, its position in the community and how it’s run. If you’ve got an upcoming CQC inspection, we can help take the pressure off with audits and mock...
Is it possible to turn around an ‘inadequate’ care home?
When a care home has been rated ‘inadequate’, it can feel like there are few options left to save it. Whilst it’s never going to be easy to improve an ‘inadequate’ rated care home, there are always steps that can be taken to improve it, using the resources and budget...
We’re shortlisted for the Best Turnaround of the Year award!
Against some of the UK’s leading businesses, we’ve made the shortlist for two categories at the well-respected TRI Awards! The prestigious ceremony, which recognises industry leaders in turnaround, restructuring and insolvency, has selected Fulcrum Care as a runner-up...
Turning a ‘requires improvement’ care home rating to ‘good’
When a care home receives a ‘requires improvement’ CQC rating, the cause tends to be deep-rooted in long-running systems, methods and processes that are no longer meeting compliance. This makes improving the rating no easy challenge, but is something that our expert...
Assisting law firms with specialist knowledge of the care sector
Legal advice is crucial in running a successful care home, and you can probably think of numerous occasions when you’ve had to run a query by your lawyer to better understand the legal implications of your decisions in the business of your care home. Lawyers are best...
Preparing care home residents for the Autumn COVID-19 booster
The threat of COVID-19 has reduced since the height of the pandemic in 2020, largely thanks to the UK’s vaccination programme. This has helped to minimise the spread of the disease and lessened the severity of its symptoms. But as the colder seasons begin, the chance...
How can care homes win the recruitment battle?
If you’re a care home manager, owner or provider and the word ‘recruitment’ sends shivers down your spine, you’re not alone. Care homes across the UK are struggling with staff shortages, amplified by a lack of new workers entering social care. This has created a...
What’s it like being a Fulcrum consultant?
The pandemic saw a dramatic rise in the number of inquiries we were receiving from care homes looking for advice and support. Although the COVID-19 situation is much more stable, the demand for our services has not dwindled, as care homes are still looking for a team...
Helping care homes during a crisis
During the pandemic, more care home managers than ever were reaching out to us, trying to make sense of the ever-changing circumstances that we all found ourselves in. If the past two (and a bit) years have shown us anything, it’s that our sector needs to be ready...
Our exciting new partnership will help give care workers a voice
Improving safeguarding in the care homes we work with is central to our ethos, and we’re thrilled to be backing a new initiative that protects vulnerable people in care homes and makes reporting workplace concerns easier. An independent contact point for staff to...
Autumn to-do list: 10 ways to prepare your care home
Autumn may seem miles away from the scorching summer heat, but it’s just around the corner! That’s why we’ve put together a go-to checklist for care homes, as doing the groundwork now will give care providers a head start on being prepared. That means, when the leaves...
Five years of helping care homes achieve their goals
In case you missed it, we turned five earlier this year! Ever since, we’ve been on a mission to help care homes achieve their goals, be that reaching a higher CQC rating, provide crisis interim management or just be a sounding board for managers and owners looking to...
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